A private men's pickleball forum.

The purpose of the charter as a filter is purely for the quality of the discourse. Friction at the door is what keeps the conversation inside honest and open. This is a place of serious men with aligned values, not a public square. It's built on the historic Christian moral framework, for men of the historic traditions working together, along with men outside the faith who respect this framework.

No. The foundation is a Christian moral framework, and everything I teach comes through a Christian lens, but the gate is how you live, not what you profess. A man without the faith who lives by the framework honors the standard, the way a man without faith who keeps his marriage vow is doing something good in God's eyes. Respect the foundation, live by the charter, and you belong here.

The historic faith, and the moral framework that comes out of it. That's the foundation this is built on. This isn't a place to argue the differences between traditions. What you agree to is the charter.

You don't have to share the faith to be here. You do have to respect the foundation and live by the values in the charter. What isn't welcome is promoting liberal or egalitarian positions that are hostile to this foundation.

American sport was largely built by Christians who believed a game's purpose was to make men. Basketball was invented at a YMCA in 1891 by a physician and chaplain who said it was a means of teaching morality.

By removing that foundation, secularism filled the void. College and pro sports now model idolatry, gamesmanship, self-importance, money buying team loyalty, and an emptiness with regard to purpose. The old baseball sandlot is the antithesis of all that, and it's the ideal model of the American sporting spirit. The sandlot died because someone found a way to commodify youth sport instead of leaving it be.

So the charter isn't there for faith conversion or decoration. It's there because I believe we need to bring that spirit back into sport. It's also not granularly ideological: it welcomes Christians who hold the historic faith, along with men outside it who agree to the framework.

The sporting spirit of old Americana means respect for your opponent, discipline in your training, and character ahead of all else. Historical, biblical Christianity provides this precise framework. We're commanded to give glory to God, not ourselves. We're required not to bear false witness, so honesty isn't optional. We're required to treat one another with respect. For the Christian, anything outside that is sin, and it needs to be repented of. For the man who isn't a Christian, the principles still hold, and he agrees to them as a moral framework.

That doesn't mean you can't have performance ambitions, and it doesn't mean we shouldn't admire the excellence professional athletes exhibit. We should. But in my view, there's no framework that comes close to Christian conviction for developing good and moral men.

It's built in America, for American men and the American pickleball sandlot. That's the central ethos. Membership is open to men in the United States.

Beside you, yes. Your membership covers your sons under 18. For boys under 13, you do the posting on their behalf; they don't type into the forum themselves. From 13 they can post on your account with you present. No solo accounts for minors, no exceptions. If your son is here, it's because his dad is here.

If you're a homeschool family that values biblical sports leadership, this was built with you in mind.

Professionals are welcome here. Coaches, trainers, physical therapists, chiropractors. You're here to get better at what you do and help others along the way.

Your profile is yours. Say who you are, what you do, and link your site. That's your storefront.

In threads: answer the question and let the answer be the advertisement. If you contribute to a library entry, your name goes on it.

If a member messages you about working together, that's between you two, go ahead and take them on.

The goal is a forum where paying members are never pressured or sold to.

Absolutely, we homeschool too. Use the forum as PE. You'll have the library I curate, built on the Dinkredibles training method and on what men in the forum are working through, and most importantly it's a Christ-first perspective on sport, development, and manhood that's rarely taught these days.

Yes, anytime. You manage your membership right from your account settings, and cancelling is never gated behind an email or a phone call.

Cancelling stops future billing. Your access runs to the end of the period you've already paid for.

Because everyone is corruptible, including me. If I'm sponsored, or directing you to affiliates, or under contract with someone outside, I benefit financially from steering you toward a sale. With true independence I can speak honestly, and there's no incentive to corrupt the answer. For instance: ask me about a paddle, and I can tell you to find it almost new for $60 on eBay, instead of sending you through my link to buy it for $100.

Heavily. This is my only product and I'm all in, so I have every incentive to make it great. I'm not a touring pro juggling brand or contract obligations. I built the forum, I set the standards and enforce them, and I build the library.

This is an asynchronous forum, and that includes me. Post whenever you like. I read and reply through the week, not on weekends or public holidays. What I won't promise is an immediate reply on every post, because that makes me the bottleneck and prevents scale. The men in here answer each other by design.

Where I do the most good is the library. When I see the same question coming up, I build something permanent around it, in collaboration with the coaches and experts in here. In the beginning I'll be more active in replies. As it grows, more of my time goes into the library, and it gets deeper because I'm not stuck in the weeds.

Yes, especially early on while the forum is small. But as it grows, it matters that I'm not a bottleneck. If a question keeps coming up, I'll create a searchable library entry that's more detailed than a typical thread reply.

Your choice. Use your real name or a handle, whichever suits you. The room judges a man by what he says, not by what his profile calls him. Do set an avatar so you're not a gray box.

If you run a pickleball business and list it in your profile, you've identified yourself, and that's a reasonable choice. Trust is easier to earn with a name on it.

Yes, but embed it rather than uploading it. Put the clip on YouTube or Vimeo and paste the link into your post. It will embed and play right there in the thread. Other hosts work too, though the link may not play inline.

You can post a game, a drill, your serve, an exercise you're unsure about, a movement that hurts, and get community feedback. Say what you want feedback on so men know what they're watching for.

I don't host video, because storage costs compound forever.

Set it to unlisted rather than public or private. Unlisted keeps it off your channel and out of search, but anyone with the link can watch, so treat the link as the only lock on it. If you're filming at your home courts or your gym, that's in the frame too, and men who play locally may recognise it.

You have an hour to edit a post after writing it, and you can delete it in that window as long as nobody has replied yet. Once someone has answered, the post is part of the thread.

After the hour, edits show in the post's history, so nobody can quietly rewrite what they said. If you need something changed or taken down later, email me.

They stay. Conversations here belong to the room, and pulling one man's side out leaves everyone else talking to themselves. If you'd rather your name not stay attached, email me and I'll anonymize the account: your words remain, your name comes off.

If you posted something you shouldn't have about your family, your employer, or your health, tell me which post and I'll remove it.

You can also use a pseudonym from the start if you'd rather not tie your name to your account.

As little as possible.

I don't sell it, rent it, or share it with anyone for marketing. There are no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, no tracking pixels. The only cookies are the ones that keep you logged in and remember whether you want light or dark mode.

The forum runs on infrastructure I control rather than a third-party community platform, so your posts and messages aren't sitting in somebody else's product. Card numbers never touch my server; my payment processor handles those.

Nothing posted in the forum is public or indexed by search engines. It's a gated, paid room, and what's said here stays here. That binds me too: if I ever want to use something you wrote outside the forum, I'll ask you first.

The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

You join, agree to the charter, and get oriented. You browse the library, then you take positive action in your training and your community.

Fall 2026. I'm not setting a hard date, because a community with nobody in it isn't worth paying for. I'm building the waitlist and publishing the work that explains what this is, and I'll open the doors when there are enough men to make it a living forum from day one. Get on the waitlist and you'll hear first.

Lutheran. But this forum is built on the foundation all the historic traditions share, the faith as it's been held for two thousand years, not the liberal egalitarian revisions of the last century. The differences between traditions, say Catholic and Protestant, exist, and they can be contentious. They can also be productive discussions elsewhere. Here they're set aside. This is a place where we unite for the purpose of growing faithful boys and men in sport, in this case pickleball.